How exactly does EMS work?
During voluntary training of targeted muscle groups (i.e. weight lifting) your brain is capable of stimulating most of the muscle fibres, but not all of them. Your body always holds some back in reserve. The EMS current is capable of doing what your brain can’t: it stimulates ALL the muscle fibres by activating the muscle fibre motor neurons directly. The EMS current causes the muscle fibres to contract and relax involuntarily at pulse rate of 400 times per second during the duty cycle. This high frequency excitation doesn’t allow the fibres to relax between the pulses causing a smooth, consistent muscle contraction and complete workout of all the muscle fibres in the targeted area and it does so without producing cardiovascular and psychological fatigue. Here’s another way to look at it; flex your abs as hard as you can for 2 seconds and then relax them for a second. This is what’s called an isometric exercise. Remember, you’re not actually flexing all the muscle fibres when you do th
